Receiving End of Discharge Terminal at the Kennecott Mill, 1911
I personally visited the Bonanza tram terminal about 1996 or 7. At that time the room was still intact where ore was dischared from the bins above to the tram buckets, which were run along rail just like what you see here.
Much of the time, just one man was on this level to handle the ore discharge. These buckets were separated by only 1200 feet and coming at him at a rate of five miles per hour. I read a story where in 1937 one of the workers nearly fell through the grizzly. Something caught him so he could hold himself in place long enough to be rescued. This only happened when someone realized that the tram buckets were backing up.
That man was George Sullivan who went on in later years to become mayor of Anchorage for several terms back in the 1970s.
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And now we return to the Bonanza surface camp . . . Continue
